The international jury, comprising Swedish film critic and journalist Annika Gustafsson, Sundance programmer Caroline Libresco, US director David Borenstein, Dutch sales agent-producer Jan Rofekamp and Greek director Lefteris Charitos, handed the €8,000 prize to the Danish documentary, which follows a boy growing up in the war zone of Donbass. However, the documentary was not content with just the Golden Alexander, as it also picked up the Best International Film Award from the FIPRESCI jury and the Human Values Award from the Hellenic Parliament.

In the Virtual Reality Films Competition, which was organised for the first time for documentaries, the jury, comprising German film critic and editor Kirsten Kieninger, Greek visual artist-director George Drivas and Greek cinematographer Argyris Theos, awarded the British effort Limbo by Shehani Fernando and the Dutch title The Last Chair 1&2 by Anke Teunissen and Jessie van Vreden with the Greek Film Centre Best Film Award, worth €3,000, ex aequo.

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